First it was "kindinologies", then "kakophonia": now George Papandreou uses the term "katastrofologies", to describe those journalists and articles predicting economic disaster.
Panic-mongers? Prophets of doom, with potentially self-fulfilling prophecies of impending catastrophe?
The End Game, by Gavin Hewitt
Mark Mazower in the NYT
Thomas Friedman in the NYT
A comparison of media coverage of the Greek economic crisis and the UK phone-hacking affair
New York Times article from 2010 (on phone-hacking)
Bagehot on the British mood
and on resignations
BBC on the knife-edge scenario (Greece)
Until recently, Greece would have scored high economic ratings for the factors of happiness and well-being.
People still look very happy on the beaches and in the coffee-shops.
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